The costumes chosen for Sengoku Basara’s upcoming TV drama adaptation “Sengoku Basara Moonlight Party” have become the subject of mass ridicule online, although some are of the opinion they are so bad the show must actually be a must-watch…

Quentin Tarantino inspired his works.Miike-sensei’s really unpredictable prolific award-winning director-writer and some of his cult followers are somewhat quite unpredictably disturbing especially in the U.S.

Yes they most certainly had, if you bothered to use google. Also the Japanese were importing or building their own firearms since 1546 and they were the most widespread missile weapon by the end of the period.

Ever hear about Takashi Miike? That guy destroys the American & Korean filmmakers in term of everything he does. He was also the first to create the most amazing videogame adaption… Gyakuten Saiban (Phoenix Wright)!

Oh don’t get me wrong, there are some creative and competent directors/producers active in Hollywood.

It’s just that we have to realize that the nature of the film industry in each country differs somewhat. That it requires a different touch, what may work great in one market, may bomb in another.

Hence the hallmark of a truly great director/producer is to make something that’s valued across the varying markets, and which can hold its own even when up against the most severe of critics, who absolutely loath the genre it takes place in.

So simply going around, Japanese movies suck, that’s just childish shortsightedness. It’s different, sometimes this can be good, and sometimes this can lead to hilarious situations.

Look at “The Ring”, Hollywood remake wasn’t that great, when compared to its Japanese counterpart, meanwhile the “Magnificent Seven” was capable of standing on its own two feet.

I mean, can you imagine Hollywood trying to do a classical Musical flick with say something from Bollywood? Train wreck is the most likely outcome.

And I feel fairly comfortable to equating someone like Mamoru Oshii to Coppola, Verhoeven or a Ridley Scott, considering all of them have done works with some heavy philosophical musings as the “foundation” of their movies.